Blanchette became Associate Professor in the McGill University School of Computer Science in 2002. His research[1][4][5] focuses on developing computational methods for detecting functional regions in DNA sequences. His
postdoctoral work developed algorithms for reconstructing ancestral mammalian genomes. His recent work continues this path, particularly with regard to developing algorithms for inferring gene regulation.[3][12][13][14][15]
Awards and honours
Blanchette was awarded the ISCB
Overton Prize in 2006, recognising his "fundamental, highly cited contributions in several areas of bioinformatics".[12] He was awarded a
Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.[16]
Blanchette has served on the Editorial Board of the journal Genome Research and as of 2014, serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Algorithms for Molecular Biology.[11][17]
^Thomas, J. W.; Touchman, J. W.; Blakesley, R. W.; Bouffard, G. G.; Beckstrom-Sternberg, S. M.; Margulies, E. H.; Blanchette, M; Siepel, A. C.; Thomas, P. J.; McDowell, J. C.; Maskeri, B; Hansen, N. F.; Schwartz, M. S.; Weber, R. J.; Kent, W. J.; Karolchik, D; Bruen, T. C.; Bevan, R; Cutler, D. J.; Schwartz, S; Elnitski, L; Idol, J. R.; Prasad, A. B.; Lee-Lin, S. Q.; Maduro, V. V.; Summers, T. J.; Portnoy, M. E.; Dietrich, N. L.; Akhter, N; et al. (2003).
"Comparative analyses of multi-species sequences from targeted genomic regions". Nature. 424 (6950): 788–93.
Bibcode:
2003Natur.424..788T.
doi:
10.1038/nature01858.
PMID12917688.
S2CID2419233.